For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.