The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.