"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"I have always been of opinion that the best way to make a man a good soldier is to make him a good citizen."

"I have a great contempt for all women, except for my sister."

"I would rather be a worm than a god, if I could only be a free worm."

"I have a great admiration for Napoleon, and I believe he was the greatest man that ever lived."