Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
War,--the trade of barbarians!
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.