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

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

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.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

We are nothing but by the law.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.