The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

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.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

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.

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.