My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.