My sweetest hope is to lose hope
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.