Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

There are evils worse than death.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.