One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.