In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

You cannot treat with all the world at once.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815