Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.