"The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results i…"

"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

"I must inform your excellencies how the Duke of Burgundy came with all pomp for his coronation as king of the kingdom…"

"Iesu Christi, quem Chrotchildis praedicat esse filium Dei vivi, qui dare auxilium laborantibus victuriamque in te spe…"

"He was, in the nineteenth century, a superb type of the valiant knight, devoted heart and soul to the defence of the …"

"The constable, Raoul de Nesle, proposed a manœuvre by which the Flemings would have been turned, and cut off from Cou…"

"Silence! Voilá l’ennemi!"

"C'est vous le negre? Très bien. Continuez, mon ami, continuez!"

"Fièvre typhoide? Mauvaise affaire, très mauvaise affaire! Un homme en meurt, ou il reste idiot pour le reste de sa vi…"

"J'y suis, et j'y reste."