Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

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.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

I've been a long-distance father.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.