This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Conspicuous by his absence.