War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
In valor there is hope.
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.