In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.