The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.