“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
