Friends Should Be Judged By Their Acts,

Those Ills Are Easiest To Bear With Which We Are Most Familiar.

As Soon As She (woman) Begins To Be Ashamed Of What She Ought Not, She Will Not Be Ashamed Of What She Ought.

Fortune Blinds Men When She Does Not Wish Them To Withstand The Violence Of Her Onslaughts.

Luck Is Of Little Moment To The Great General, For It Is Under The Control Of His Intellect And His Judgment.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.