To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.