Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

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.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.