The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

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

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.