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

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

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.