On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
Necessity has no law.
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.