Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.