Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

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.

Love is easy early on...its when the busyness of life creeps in and felling ebb and flow that real love shines through in small choices.

Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!

Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!

I am not an American. I am the American.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.