Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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.

All is fair in fashion and war.

...pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....

One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.