True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

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.

Before you wonder ‘Am I doing things right?’ ask yourself, ‘Am I doing the right things?

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.