Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.