He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

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

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.