Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.