Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.