George Stillman Hillard Quotes
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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
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The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
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Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
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Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.
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There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.
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Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.