I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

The word impossible is not French.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.