We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

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.

Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

Out of discomfort comes greatness.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift.