"A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it."

“Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.”

“Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.”

“The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.”

“You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife”

“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.”

“The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), chapter XV, 1922.

“Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.”

“Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.”