If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.