All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
I start out by believing the worst
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.