“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

History is written by the winners.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.

An army marches on its stomach.

I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only You

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.