Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.