Such, gentlemen, are the Sentiments which, in animal relations, mankind should have taught it for its welfare."] [Footnote 1120: Yung, I., 252 (Letter to Buttafuoco).

"Dripping with the blood of his brethren, sullied by every species of crime, he presents himself with confidence under his vest of a general, the sole reward of his criminalities."-- I., 192 (Letter to the Corsican Intendant, April 2, 1879).

"Cultivation is what ruins us"-- See various manuscript letters, copied by Yung, for innumerable and gross mistakes in French .-- Miot de Melito, I., 84 (July, 1796).

"He spoke curtly and, at this time, very incorrectly."-- Madame de Remusat, I., 104.

"Whatever language he spoke it never seemed familiar to him; he appeared to force himself in expressing his ideas."-- Notes par le Comte Chaptal (unpublished), councillor of state and afterwards minister of the interior under the Consulate: "At this time, Bonaparte did not blush at the slight knowledge of administrative details which he possessed; he asked a good many questions and demanded definitions and the meaning of the commonest words in use.