Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.