Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.