Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

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.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

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.