If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

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.

I will claim her, and I will protect her, and any who become her enemy? I will destroy.

Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.