The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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.