Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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

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

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.