"Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays."

"There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness."

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

"Reputations are created every day and every minute."

"To make a man happy, fill his hands with work."

"The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places."

"YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door."

"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."

"O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store."