It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.