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.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.