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

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, kn…

Hope leads men to venture, and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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…