If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Injustice never rules forever.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.