Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Some men are born posthumously.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.