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.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.