They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

Rumor is not always wrong

I am my nearest neighbour.

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

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

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.