Half of the people in the world are below average.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.