Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.