William E. Woodward quotes:

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.

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.

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.