When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~