Cats like men are flatterers.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.