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

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

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

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

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

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

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