We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

France will always be a great nation.