The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.