Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest flower of Britain’s manhood, were hidden away in her most secret...

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses,...

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

A bad peace is worse than war.