A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.