Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.