"When you are a great man, you must also be a great butcher."

"I have not been able to find a single good general; I must be my own."

"The clergy is a different body, but the state is the same."

"Why do you hesitate? Do you doubt my power? I can make a nobleman out of my groom, but only God can make a groom out of my nobleman."

"The beard is a superfluous ornament."