Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

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.

Freedom is the most precious property

I've learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body.

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

Don't be among those who give up early and regret later.

A lot of people mistake having some degrees with being educated. Most degrees are nothing but certifications for higher paying jobs.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

What’s broken, and how do we fix it?

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.