Health is the requisite after morality

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.