Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.