One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. May you live all the days of your life. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.