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

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.