I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
