"To talk well and eloquently is a very good art, but that of knowing when to stop is better."

"In every man's life, there are two days that are of supreme importance: the day he is born and the day he finds out why."

"For good and evil, life and death, and all things, are in the power of the tongue."

"The devil, in hell, is a gentleman."

"I have been a soldier for twenty years, and in all that time, I have never seen a man so brave as to be afraid of a woman."