Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

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.

I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!

Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.