"You are a man whom I have raised and whom I will raise.

He who has a major's epaulettes at thirty may carry a marshal's baton at fifty.

Your past is mine, and your future shall be no less so.

What other hopes have you ?" "I have none, sire, outside your service." "Why this silence, then?
Why do you not give the assurance which I demand ?" "I cannot do it, sire." "You cannot do it!" "It is impossible.

I should have no more peace in my mind, or respect for myself, if I knew that for the sake of position or wealth I had given up the faith of my fathers." "Man, you are surely mad! There is all that a man could covet upon one side, and what is there upon the other ?" "There is my honour." "And is it, then, a dishonour to embrace my religion ?" "It would be a dishonour to me to embrace it for the sake of gain without believing in it." "Then believe it." "Alas, sire, a man cannot force himself to believe.