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

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

The men who have changed the universe have never accomplished it by changing officials but always by inspiring the people.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, the further does it swell. Land, monuments, nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.