Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.