Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Mahomet was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender [sic]; a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.