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Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.