In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.