"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Of all the loose and sanguinary speculators, the French are the worst."

"I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."

"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."

"No man ever was a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."