My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

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.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.