Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Error has never approached my spirit.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.