What is necessary is never a risk.

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

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

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

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