I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.