"They'll put you, Caulaincourt, in a cage and show you off to the London merchants. I can just see you all full of honey and covered with flies in that cage. How would you like that?"

"The people to whom I have done the most good are those whom I have most reason to fear."

"One must not fight with too many enemies at once."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

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