If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.