Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.