Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.