There Are Plebes In All Classes.

Impatience Asks For The Impossible, Wants To Reach The Goal Without The Means Of Getting There. The Length Of The Journey Has To Be Borne With, For Every Moment Is Necessary.

The Nature Of Finite Things Is To Have The Seed Of Their Passing-away As Their Essential Being: The Hour Of Their Birth Is The Hour Of Their Death.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, Are Wont To Be Emphatically Commended To The Teaching Which Experience Offers In History. But What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It. Each Period Is Involved In Such Peculiar Circumstances, Exhibits A Condition Of Things So Strictly Idiosyncratic, That Its Conduct Must Be Regulated By Considerations Connected With Itself, And Itself Alone.

The Valor That Struggles Is Better Than The Weakness That Endures.

War Is Progress, Peace Is Stagnation.