It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.