“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”

“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”

“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).”

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”

“A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of th...”

“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the ef...”

“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?”

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”