In valor there is hope.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.