It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman$$$ "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?"<br>"I do not have to forgive all my enemies$$$" answered the stateman$$$ "I have had them all shot."

Keep your friends for friendship$$$ but work with the skilled and competent.

You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat.

But we are gifted$$$ even in November<br>Rawest of seasons$$$ with so huge a sense<br>Of her nakedly worn magnificence<br>We forget cruelty and past betrayal$$$<br>Careless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud$$$ hatch out.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate?

I was thinking$$$ "So$$$ I'm Emperor$$$ am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now."

On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.

In the darkest hours$$$ we must believe in ourselves.