A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

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.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?