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.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

The key to every man is his thought.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.