"Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“One might as well try to charge through a wall.”

“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

“The army is the true nobility of our country.”

“One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.”

“Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.”

“Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”

“Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.”

“But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.”