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

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.