Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.