Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.
Education made us what we are.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.