The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

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.

-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.

See yourself while crying this is only things that no man wants.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.