The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

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.

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

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.