Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.