The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

There is a joy in danger.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.