Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.