Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

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.

The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.