If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

-Emerson Pugh

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

-Paul Valery

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

-Alexander Pope

Give all to love obey thy heart.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

-Rudyard Kipling