States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Delay in justice is injustice.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.