"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to 'get by.'"

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash."

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality."

"Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others."

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."