» Ability is of little account without opportunity.
» Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
» The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
» Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
» It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
» Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
» The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
» He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
» Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
» There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.