If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

We may be willing to tell a story twice but we are never willing to hear it more than once.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.