"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."

"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing."

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."

"What breaks in a moment may take years to mend."

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment."

"You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell."