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

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

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

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.

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

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.