"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"It is a timeless truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."