My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

- Josephine De Beauharnais

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

- Josephine De Beauharnais

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

- Josephine De Beauharnais

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

- Josephine De Beauharnais