Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

The French complain of everything, and always.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

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

An army marches on its stomach.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.