Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

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

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

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.