Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.