No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.