The worse the man, the better the soldier.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.