Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

Education made us what we are.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.