Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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.

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.