Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

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

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

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

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.