Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.