I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

Wait and hope!

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God