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

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.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

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

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