War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time