Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

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.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

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

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

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

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.