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If you pick

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

A state that

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

Speak of things

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.