Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.