Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

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.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.