It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.