Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

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.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!