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

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Men, in general, are but great children.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

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

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.