Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Nature abhors annihilation.