All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.