No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.