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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
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"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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"In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack."
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"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
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"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."
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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
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"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."
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"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."
Relationship
"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."
Faith
"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."
Mortality
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Man
"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
Literature
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
Travel
"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Society
"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."
Emotion
"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Humor
"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
Beauty
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