"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."

"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."

"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."