"Men more easily renounce their interests than..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.”

“True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.”

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.”

“All men in the abstract are just and good.”

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.”

“I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.”

“Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.”