For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.