He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

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

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.