In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.