Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.