The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.