More Than Half The Difficulties

We Are Frequently Understood The Least By Those Who Have Known Us The Longest.

Rare Almost As Great Poets, Rarer, Perhaps, Than Veritable Saints And Martyrs; Are Consummate Men Of Business. A Man, To Be Excellent In This Way, Requires A Great Knowledge Of Character, With That Exquisite Tact Which Feels Unerringly The Right Moment When To Act. A Discreet Rapidity Must Pervade All The Movements Of His Thought And Action. He Must Be Singularly Free From Vanity, And Is Generally Found To Be An Enthusiast Who Has The Art To Conceal His Enthusiasm.

War May Be The Game Of Kings, But, Like The Games At Ancient Rome, It Is Generally Exhibited To Please And Pacify The People.

The Sense Of Danger Is Never, Perhaps, So Fully Apprehended As When The Danger Has Been Overcome.

The World Will Tolerate Many Vices, But Not Their Diminutives.