A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The word impossible is not French.

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

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