“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
“Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.”
“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”
“Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.”
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish ”