Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

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

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

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

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

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

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

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.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.