Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.