I quote others in order to better express myself.

My art and profession is to live.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.