One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.