Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

An army marches on its stomach.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.