Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.