God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
... but the longest day hath its evening.
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.