The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
There shall be no Alps.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
Let the path be open to talent.