I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.