“Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.”

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

In valor there is hope.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.