Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

A witty quote proves nothing.