Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

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.

If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.

if you have returned then either its a deception or its a dream...from now no nightmares onwards.

When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is... because that is what it is to live.

positivity is the father of reinvention

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.