Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
We are nothing but by the law.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
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.