Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.

He who would propagate an opinion must begin by making sure of his ground and holding it firmly. There is as little use in trying to breed from weak opinion as from other weak stock.

I should not advise anyone with ordinary independence of mind to attempt the public ear unless he is confident that he can out-lung and out-last his own generation; for if he has any force, people will and ought to be on their guard against him, inasmuch as there is no knowing where he may not take them.