Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.