Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

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.

We often don’t realise how much strength we have until challenged to use it. Once tested, we know how strong or weak we are.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.