Erskine’s Toast
Sink your pits, blast your mines, dam your rivers, consume your manufactures, disperse your commerce, and may your labors be in vein.
Our Dead
Alexander the Great, before giving signal for the banquet to be served, looked searchingly around upon the faces of all present and called out: “Are all here who fought at Issos?” After a pause Clitus answered, “All, Alexander, but those who fell there.” Which was thought to be an ill response for such an occasion, but to which Alexander quickly replied: “Then all who fought at Issos are here, since the glorious dead are always in our memory.”—Ctesippus to Aristotle.