Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Faith is necessary to victory.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.