Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.