Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
— Samuel Johnson
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
— John Adams
Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side!
— William Lane Craig
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
— William Law
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.