The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.