The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.