Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

I was particularly good at math and science.