The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearan...
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value...
Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.
