So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

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.

The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.

We had, like I said before. . .we had to prevent life. We had to kill. It’s as simple as that.” —STEVE MASSOF

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

There's music in everything, even defeat

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.