I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

The only victory over love is flight.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.