A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.