Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

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.

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.