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

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

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

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

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.