We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.