A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

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