I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.