Men are ruled by toys.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.