“* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

“Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a ge...”

“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”

“A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”

“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ”

“Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.”

“A soldier never goes to war without his weapon.”

“Neither your work to be with insensible, nor their work to be with you.”

“who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..”