Whatever is unknown is magnified.

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

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

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 most seditious is the most cowardly.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

They make solitude, which they call peace.