Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.