Conquest Has Made Me What I Am,

The More I Study The World, The More I Am Convinced Of The Inability Of Brute Force To Create Anything Durable.

All Systems Of Morality Are Fine. The Gospel Alone Has Exhibited A Complete Assemblage Of The Principles Of Morality, Divested Of All Absurdity. It Is Not Composed, Like Your Creed, Of A Few Common-place Sentences Put Into Bad Verse. Do You Wish To See That Which Is Really Sublime? Repeat The Lord's Prayer.

In War, The General Alone Can Judge Of Certain Arrangements. It Depends On Him Alone To Conquer Difficulties By His Own Superior Talents And Resolution.

The Advance And Perfecting Of Mathematics Are Closely Joined To The Prosperity Of The Nation.

Flatterers And Men Of Learning Do Not Accord Well With Each Other.