Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.