The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

War is the business of barbarians.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.