I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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.