A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.