He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.