Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

O' melancholy, hectic chill for human soul, herewith dismal presence, any spirit does descent.

The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.