“Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature”

“Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.”

“Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.”

“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”

“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”