We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Those who can command themselves command others.