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.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.