The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Genius is fostered by industry.