You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Well done is better than well said.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.