Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.