There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.