A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Henry David Thoreau