To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.