When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.