I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.