Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

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.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.