A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

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

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

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

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

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.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.