An empty throne always tempts me.

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

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.