When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

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.

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

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

In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

Stories happen to those who tell them.