Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

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 way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.

Life is like a B-picture script.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.