Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.