Delusion And Weakness Produce Not One Mischief

The Marketplace Obliges Men, Whether They Will Or Not, In Pursuing Their Own Selfish Interests, To Connect The General Good With Their Own Individual Success.

War Is The Matter Which Fills All History; And Consequently The Only, Or Almost The Only, View In Which We Can See The External Of Political Society Is In A Hostile Shape: And The Only Actions To Which We Have Always Seen, And Still See, All Of Them Intent, Are Such As Tend To The Destruction Of One Another.

Beauty In Distress Is Much The Most Affecting Beauty.

Laws, Like Houses, Lean On One Another.

Great Men Are Never Sufficiently Shown But In Struggles.