It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

Men, in general, are but great children.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.