If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.