If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
There are no small steps in great affairs.
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.