Custom adapts itself to expediency.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
They make solitude, which they call peace.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.