Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.