Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

History paints the human heart.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.