Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.