I feel well assured that, before I can be their equal, I must long be their scholar.

If there were any way more expressive than another of making known my esteem for you, I should be glad to employ it.

True conquests--the only ones which leave no regret behind them--are those which are made over ignorance.

The most honourable, as well as the most useful, occupation for nations is the contributing to the extension of human knowledge.

The true power of the French Republic should henceforth be made to consist in not allowing a single new idea to exist without making it part of its property.
BONAPARTE.
The General now renewed, though unsuccessfully, the attempt he had made before the 18th Fructidor to obtain a dispensation of the age necessary for becoming a Director.