"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"It is a profound truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson."

"He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss."

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."