The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Stubborness is the strength of the weak.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without att…

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.