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

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.