Men, in general, are but great children.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.