When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.