When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.