To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.