Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

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.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

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Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come by such knowledge.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.