Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...