From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.