To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

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.

Aku nggak membencimu. Aku hanya benci karena ternyata begitu sulit melupakanmu.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

I’ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you’re feeling and then walk away like that.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.