All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.