I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

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.

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

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