Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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.

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.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Hello, I must be going.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.