Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
One might as well try to charge through a wall.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.