In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.