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

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.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.