The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

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 deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.