The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

An empty throne always tempts me.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.