Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Leaders deal in hope.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

I made all my generals out of mud.