“In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.”

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Many dishes bring many diseases.

Chance is a second master.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Human nature craves novelty.

Hope is a working-man’s dream.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama’s not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don’t get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

I don’t understand what the president’s [Donald Trump] position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and [Vladimir]