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.

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

The fate of those of their neighbours who had already rebelled and had been subdued was no lesson to them; their own prosperity could not dissuade them from af…

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…