Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.