The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

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.

Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

My grandfather always said, Don't watch your money, watch your health. So one day while I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my grandfather.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.