Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.