To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

God sends the cold according to the coat.