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.

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

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

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

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.