Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.