The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.