The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

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

I made all my generals out of mud.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.