Time Is Of No Account With Great

Success Treads On The Heels Of Every Right Effort; And Though It Is Possible To Overestimate Success To The Extent Of Almost Deifying It, As Is Sometimes Done, Still In Any Worthy Pursuit It Is Meritorious.

The Romans Rightly Employed The Same Word (virtus) To Designate Courage, Which Is, In A Physical Sense, What The Other Is In A Moral; The Highest Virtue Of All Being Victory Over Ourselves.

I See Nothing Quite Conclusive In The Art Of Temporal Government, But Violence, Duplicity And Frequent Malversation. King Rules Or Barons Rule: The Strong Man Strongly And The Weak Man By Caprice. They Have But One Law, To Seize The Power And Keep It.

Good Sense, Disciplined By Experience And Inspired By Goodness, Issues In Practical Wisdom.

Politeness Goes Far, Yet Costs Nothing.