One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.