“Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.”

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

History is written by the winners.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

I love to collect modern art.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.