The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Anything that creates the path of least resistance for the traveler is what we would most want,

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.