No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.