As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
One might as well try to charge through a wall.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate