Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

There shall be no Alps.