True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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.

If the Opportunity is not there, You be there for it!

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.