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.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.