Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.