Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.