Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

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

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.