My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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.

make only your trust in God

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.