A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.