Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.