When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.