Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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.

Always appreciate the good in people

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.

I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.