Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. William E. Woodward More Quotes by William E. Woodward More Quotes From William E. Woodward Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts. William E. Woodward self-confidence life-is men 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. William E. Woodward horse emotional dog No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. William E. Woodward military christian men