Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.