Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

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

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.