I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.