Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.Collection: Self Confidence
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.Collection: Christian
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.Collection: Vanity
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.Collection: Dog