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.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.