“We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.”

You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.

Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.

If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

It was only when I accepted the end of our story, Was i able to begin a new chapter with a better man.

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.