More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

All great men are partially inspired.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.