There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

We are worth fighting for, ” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.