The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

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.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

God has a specific plan for you

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.