“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

His saying was: live and let live.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Not he who scorns the Saviour’s yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that’s true, He whom woman’s love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret indentities.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

That’s my attitude on the military. I don’t like telling the enemy what I’m doing.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.