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

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

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.

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

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