Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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.

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.

In my restless dreams, I see that town.Silent Hill.

In times of sorrow, be still.

My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.