“Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.”

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool’s dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible

There is a joy in danger.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.