Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

I start out by believing the worst

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.