Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

All sorrows are less with bread.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.