Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.