The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

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

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

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

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.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

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