You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.