A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

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.

Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.