It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will…

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…

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what th…