"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves."

"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today."

"For I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

"POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one."

"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things."

"Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons."

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."