Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent
What is a vow. . . but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?