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 pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.