. . . strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.