America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

An army marches on its stomach.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.