Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.