A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.