He who defends everything defends nothing.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.