We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

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

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude