A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

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.

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

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.