Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

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

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.