Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.