A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
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.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
. . . how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?
Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.