Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
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.