Great men are never cruel without necessity.

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

There is no strength without justice.