Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815
I made all my generals out of mud.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.