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.

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

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.

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

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.

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.