The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.