Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

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

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.