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

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

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

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

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