The superior man is never in anyone's way.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

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

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.