The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.