If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.