Thomas Benfield Harbottle

“ Et mourir une fois que mourir tous les jours."
Racan. Les Bergeries, Act II., Sc. V.— (Alcidor.)
"What worth is life, when I am fortune’s butt?
’Tis better, better far its course to stay,
And die once only, than die every day." ”

“ Cloud, Août, 1808. (Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula, Vol. I., Appendix V.)
"In war three fourths are matters of moral ascendency; the balance of the actual forces engaged only counts for the remaining fourth."
"À la longue il en est d’une profession comme du mariage, on n’en sent plus que les inconvénients."
Honoré de Balzac, Le Cousin Pons, p. 18.
"In the long run it is with a profession as with marriage, we cease to remark anything but its drawbacks." ”