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.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.