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.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.