The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Imagination rules the world.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.