Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

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.

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.