This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.