There is a joy in danger.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

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.

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.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.