A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.