Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.