I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.