The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.