Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.