When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

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.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.