Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.