It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

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.

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.

In the midst of embracing life secrets, you will remain purposely guided - throughout your life.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.