Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

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.

Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Dare to accomplish the things you've only dreamed about doing. If you can dream it, you can do it.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

False praise is always confined to the great.

I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.

You can’t die, Vik. You’re a mechbot. (Syn) They can pull me apart and reprogram me. Trust me, that’s death. Now shush before they find us. Remember – hide, people, hide. (Vik)