Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

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

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.