I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.