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

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

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.