It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

The only victory over love is flight.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.