We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.