O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.