A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

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.

Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.