There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
A true man hates no one.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
All religions have been made by men.
An army marches on its stomach.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.