The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.

Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'dam…

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The recruit must be carefully and sedulously taught when meeting the enemy, even at a trot or canter, to use no force whatever, otherwise his sword will bury i…