"...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."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force."

"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."

"Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead"

"Keen at the start, but careless at the end."

"I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love."

"Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest."

"I know this--a man got to do what he got to do."

"A profession is the backbone of life."