Treachery, Though At First Very

Toil And Pleasure, In Their Natures Opposite, Are Yet Linked Together In A Kind Of Necessary Connection.

Nowhere Are Our Calculations More Frequently Upset Than In War.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.

The Best Known Evil Is The Most Tolerable.