"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."

"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."

"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."

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."

"And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

"When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults."

"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."

"Life is like a dogsled race--if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt."