He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.