The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

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.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

There you are! Aren't you precious?

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.