No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

It sounded a lot like me when I didn't want to go to Vancouver. Really, I had never heard of (Vazquez) before. I didn't know who he was.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.