Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

In a major matter no details are small.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.