James Oddy

“Besides, had not Shakespeare observed that “a heart agitated with the remains of a former passion is most susceptible to a new one”?”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal [he wrote to Abigail]. But there is no encouragement to be faithful. Neither profit, nor honor, nor applause is acquired by faithfulness. . . . There is too much corruption, even in this infant age of our Republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.”
― Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician