Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.