We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance, they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteem to all.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.