The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.