18 Quotes by George Stillman Hillard

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

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.

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.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.