Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
He who stops being better stops being good.
A man-of-war is the best ambassador.