Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

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 Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

A Warrior, A Winner has no fear. His only objective is to change the atmosphere, because he knows that then he controls the outcome.

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Try to come to a place where you accept your own imperfections. Where it‟s okay to be less than perfect. Because you are less than perfect

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

I'm always on your side.

To make an end is to make a beginning.