Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

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

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

A hug is worth a thousand words.