Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.