The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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.

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.

Peace, Love, and Happiness, are the priceless treasures of life.

If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.