The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.