He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.