The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.