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.

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

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

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.

War is the national industry of Prussia.