The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Injustice never rules forever.
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.