Disdain is the privilege of those who, like us, have been assured by reflection of their superiority to their adversary. And where the chances are the same, knowledge fortifies courage by the contempt which is its consequence, its trust being placed, not in hope, which is the prop of the desperate, but in a judgment grounded upon existing resources, whose anticipations are more to be depended upon.

In our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; althou…

That which makes the splendour of the present and the glory of the future remains for ever unforgotten.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spok…