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.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

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.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.