What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.