The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

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

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.