Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.’

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery

Solitary Trees if they grow at all, grow strong

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses. No one ever came to grief, except honourable grief, through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war

the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

If you're going through hell, keep going

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

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Day 61:

SANTIAGO

Value and Seek Out the Lost