Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.