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.

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.

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

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

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

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

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.