A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.