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

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.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

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.

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.