"He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs."

"What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage."

"In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost."

"God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him."

"Judgment is forced upon us by experience."

"If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it."

"Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it."

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger."

"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?"

"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."

"The cowards never start and the weak die along the way."

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide."