It's a concept I've often thought of.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

In the future torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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