A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.