It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

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

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

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

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.