Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

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.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

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