Henry Cabot Lodge: “Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.”

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.

When, without any self-seeking, he was placed at the head of the Revolution, he made up his mind that he would carry it through everything to victory, if victory were possible.

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.