Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.