The man who believes he can do it is probably right

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.