Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
. . . tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.