Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

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

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.