One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

France will always be a great nation.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

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.