"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."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."

"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."

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

"PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?"

"Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter."