It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
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.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.