Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

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

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.