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.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

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.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.