...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

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

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.