In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.