"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."

"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."

"Trust more in God. Believe that He who created you will maintain you."

"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."

"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."

"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out."

"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake."

"It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing."

"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality."