None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.