As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.