I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

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

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.