In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.