"Always do everything you ask of those you command."

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

"It is a humble truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

"There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good."