To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
Envy is littleness of soul.
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.