Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

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.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

I have enough...and I allow what I already have enough of to flow to me.