There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

Imagination rules the world.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.