... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.