“Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.”

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”

“Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.”

“Women Knit”

“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.”