Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

This is a strange game.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

If you have love, you have all

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.