To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.