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.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.