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.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.