"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."

"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."

"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."

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."

"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"

"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

"Hemingway was a jerk."

"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."