There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spiSrit.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

War is ninety percent information.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.