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

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.

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.

For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are.

A seer is a sacred prophet

How can we live our lives without God?

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

God has taken you from something in order to you to something.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.