A determination, in whatever matter, is reached in an instant.
Do what we will, the moment comes when the decision must be made.

The greater the array of reasons for and against, the less sound will be the judgment.

The finest things of which France can boast have been accomplished without reports and where decisions were prompt and spontaneous.

The dominant law of a statesman is to apply precise formula to all cases, after the manner of judges and physicians.
Rabourdin, who said to himself: "A minister should have decision, should know public affairs, and direct their course," saw "Report" rampant throughout France, from the colonel to the marshal, from the commissary of police to the king, from the prefects to the ministers of state, from the Chamber to the courts.

After 1818 everything was discussed, compared, and weighed, either in speech or writing; public business took a literary form.