In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. – Joseph Smith, Jr.