A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.