An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

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.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

The bond between America and Japan and the friendship between our two peoples runs very, very deep.

I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.