The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
I am my nearest neighbour.
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.