Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

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.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.