In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.