Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.