It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.