Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
The only time not wasted is wasted time.
All cats look gray in the dark.