Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
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.