In The End, They Wanted

The Most Distinguished Merit Of Those Two Officers Was Their Respective Prowess, Of The One In The Combats Of Bacchus, Of The Other In Those Of Venus.

[courage] Arises In A Great Measure From The Consciousness Of Strength . . .

A Reformer Should Be Exempt From The Suspicion Of Interest, And He Must Possess The Confidence And Esteem Of Those Whom He Proposes To Reclaim.

But A Wild Democracy . . . Too Often Disdains The Essential Principles Of Justice.

But A Law, However Venerable Be The Sanction, Cannot Suddenly Transform The Temper Of The Times . . .