By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.