Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.