Keys Quotes

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.