What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.