Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name