Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required