Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.