God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.