I was born excited.

That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.