Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
In valor there is hope.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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.