Put not your trust in princes. — Prince

"A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping."

"Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest."

"A true prince is the artist of artists. […] The princes material is the artist; his will is his chisel: he inspires, employs and directs the artist, because only he sees the whole picture from the correct perspective, because only he is the one to execute the great idea through which through which the unity of power and idea is expressed completely in the present. The regent produces an infinitely diverse spectacle, where stage and ground floor, actor and audience are one, and he himself is poet, director and hero of the play at the same time."

"Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credet Servitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio."

"Princes appear to me to be Fools & appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life."

"Let it not be understood that I have the slightest feeling against Henry of Prussia; it is the prince I have no use for. Personally, he may be a good fellow, and I am inclined to believe he is, and if he were in trouble and I had it in my power to help he would find in me a friend. The amputation of his title would relieve him of his royal affliction and elevate him to the dignity of a man."