Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.