The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.