The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

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.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.