The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.