The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.