Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.