They wanted me to be a Washington.

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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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