Men Grow Old Quickly On The Battlefield.

The Keys Of A Fortress Are Always Well Worth The Retirement Of The Garrison When It Is Resolved To Yield Only On Those Conditions. On This Principle It Is Always Wiser To Grant An Honorable Capitulation To A Garrison Which Has Made A Vigorous Resistance Than To Risk An Assault.

The Division Of Labor, Which Has Brought Such Perfection In Mechanical Industries, Is Altogether Fatal When Applied To Productions Of The Mind. All Work Of The Mind Is Superior In Proportion As The Mind That Produces It Is Universal.

Everything Is More Or Less Organized Matter. To Think So Is Against Religion, But I Think So Just The Same.

But It Is At Home And Not In Public That One Should Wash Ones Dirty Linen. [fr., Car C'est En Famille, Ce N'est Pas En Public, Qu'un Lave Son Linge Sale.]

In Statesmanship There Are Predicaments From Which It Is Impossible To Escape Without Some Wrongdoing.