No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.