There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.