We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

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.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuffs every day. Don’t give up!

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.