He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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.

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.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.