Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

War is the business of barbarians.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.