Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

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.