put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

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.

If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

I think a person can learn. Basically, I think anything is possible.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.