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.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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

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.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.