A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.