All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.