War May Be The Game Of Kings,

I Do Not Know Any Way So Sure Of Making Others Happy As Of Being So Oneself, To Begin With.

Rare Almost As Great Poets, Rarer, Perhaps, Than Veritable Saints And Martyrs; Are Consummate Men Of Business. A Man, To Be Excellent In This Way, Requires A Great Knowledge Of Character, With That Exquisite Tact Which Feels Unerringly The Right Moment When To Act. A Discreet Rapidity Must Pervade All The Movements Of His Thought And Action. He Must Be Singularly Free From Vanity, And Is Generally Found To Be An Enthusiast Who Has The Art To Conceal His Enthusiasm.

Those Who Are Successfully To Lead Their Fellow-men, Should Have Once Possessed The Nobler Feelings. We Have All Known Individuals Whose Magnanimity Was Not Likely To Be Troublesome On Any Occasion; But Then They Betrayed Their Own Interests By Unwisely Omitting The Consideration, That Such Feelings Might Exist In The Breasts Of Those Whom They Had To Guide And Govern: For They Themselves Cannot Even Remember The Time When In Their Eyes Justice Appeared Preferable To Expediency, The Happiness Of Others To Self-interest, Or The Welfare Of A State To The Advancement Of A Party.

Many A Man Has A Kind Of A Kaleidoscope, Where The Bits Of Broken Glass Are His Own Merits And Fortunes; And They Fall Into Harmonious Arrangements, And Delight Him, Often Most Mischievously And To His Ultimate Detriment; But They Are A Present Pleasure.

An Official Man Is Always An Official Man, And Has A Wild Belief In The Value Of Reports.