All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

There shall be no Alps.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.