The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.