I wish these flies would piss off.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.