If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

A true man hates no one.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.