It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.