Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

My love for my country is my religion.

I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Are all ends of life so sad?

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!