Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

History paints the human heart.

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

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.