Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
History is not history unless it is the truth.
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.