Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

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.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

A picture is a poem without words.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.