Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
Kings are the slaves of history.
Act as if you are, and you will become such.
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.