"Spend and be spent."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"A man is so in the way in the house."

"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him."

"Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice."

"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."

"An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?"

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."