Prosperity Engenders Sloth.

Nowhere Are Our Calculations More Frequently Upset Than In War.

It Takes A Long Time To Bring Excellence To Maturity.

The Army From Asia Introduced A Foreign Luxury To Rome; It Was Then The Meals Began To Require More Dishes And More Expenditure . . . The Cook, Who Had Up To That Time Been Employed As A Slave Of Low Price, Become Dear: What Had Been Nothing But A Metier Was Elevated To An Art.

He Will Have True Glory Who Despises It.

Friendships Ought To Be Immortal, Hostilities Mortal.