I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.