Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real st….

One believes in what one wants to believe in..

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them..

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth..

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men..

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law..

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises..

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening..

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery..

Nothing is easier than self-deceit..

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once..

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true..

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence..

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from….

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme t….

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit..

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe..

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But pr….

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice..

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.].

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great..