"Conquest has made me what I am; conquest alone can maintain me."

"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 principles which direct them."

"Victory is not always to the strong, but to the swift, to the active, to the bold."

"The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance."

"The greater the man, the less he is subject to fortune; he depends on himself and his own resources."