If Particular Care And Attention Is Not

How Difficult The Task To Quench The Fire And The Pride Of Private Ambition, And To Sacrifice Ourselves And All Our Hopes And Expectations To The Public Weal! How Few Have Souls Capable Of So Noble An Undertaking!

These Are The Times When A Genius Wants To Live.

Wisdom And Penetration Are The Fruit Of Experience, Not The Lessons Of Retirement And Leisure. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues.

History Is Not A Web Woven With Innocent Hands. Among All The Causes Which Degrade And Demoralize Men, Power Is The Most Constant And Most Active.

Dark And Sour Humours, Especially Those Which Have A Spice Of Malevolence In Them, Are Vastly Disagreeable. Such Men Have No Music In Their Souls.