The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

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.

No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.