Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.