"Nature has sown into the hearts of all men the seeds of self-love."

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

"There are some people who, if they don't get a little drunk, say nothing at all worth hearing."