The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.