The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

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.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.