A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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.

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.