To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

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

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

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