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.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

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.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

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

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.