“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

“Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning”

“Folly is a child of power.”

“I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered...”

“Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.”

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”

“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”

“Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one'...”

“The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.”

“Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.”