Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.