Wit Is The Flower Of The Imagination.

Truth Is Often Eclipsed But Never Extinguished.

It Is Easier To Criticize Than To Correct Our Past Errors.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.

In War, Mere Appearances Have Had All The Effect Of Realities; And That A Person, Under A Firm Persuasion That He Can Command Resources, Virtually Has Them; That Very Prospect Inspiring Him With Hope And Boldness In His Exertions.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.