A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.