I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.