I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.