Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

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.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.