To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.