“What we wish, that we readily believe.”
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”
“To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.”
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
“No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.”
“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.”