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

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

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.

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

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

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.