It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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.

All life is a rhythm, ” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.

When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and love than is humanly possible.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...

Humankind is the greatest resources.

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.