Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

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

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.