The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

In valor there is hope.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Rumor is not always wrong