Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.