Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.