Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.