Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.