All delays are dangerous in war.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.