Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
History is the invention of historians.
History is written by the winners.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.