Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

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

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.