Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Polite people tend to be more respected, admired, and appreciated than their rude counterparts.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

I know you don't always need to spend a ton of money to be stylish.

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

Execute their airy purposes.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

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.