Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.