I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.