Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Truth is the edict of God.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.