Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
History should be written as philosophy.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.