Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.