Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.