Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

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.

How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

On your way to the promised land are many circumstances, only determination will take you there.

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.