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

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

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

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.

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

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.