“Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake it’s all on its honor.”

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Courage, ne’er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

You should not honor men more than truth.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.