The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.