When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.