Great Throughts Treasury

"The army is a good book to open to study human life. One learns there to put his hand to everything to the lowest and highest things. The most delicate and rich are forced to see living nearly everywhere poverty, and to live with it, and to measure his morsel of bread and draught of water."

"A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom."

"What is a great life is not a youthful idea executed by the man of mature years?"

"An army is a nation within a nation; it is one of the vices of our age."