There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!