All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.