I start out by believing the worst

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory