Turtle makes all men equal.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.