“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.”

“men crown the knave and scourge the tool that did his will”

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; abase, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; alily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be abawd, in way of good service, and art nothing butthe composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom Iwill beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniestthe least syllable of thy addition.”

“one might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”