Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.