Despise the free lunch.

But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage$$$ and if it is not tamed$$$ it will run wild and cause you grief.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive$$$ and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced.

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

I felt that 15$$$000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50$$$000 a month later.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champions Hill and the Big Black$$$ and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

But the Nation had already become restless and discouraged at the prolongation of the war$$$ and many believed that it would never terminate except by compromise.

I only knew what was in my mind$$$ and I wished to express it clearly.

Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.