All that is really noble and really useful in this world will find its account therein." "The imprisoned king will speak." "To whom do you think he will speak--to the walls ?" "You mean, by walls, the men in whom you put confidence." "If need be, yes.

And besides, your royal highness--" "Besides ?" "I was going to say, that the designs of Providence do not stop on such a fair road.

Every scheme of this caliber is completed by its results, like a geometrical calculation.

The king, in prison, will not be for you the cause of embarrassment that you have been for the king enthroned.
His soul is naturally proud and impatient; it is, moreover, disarmed and enfeebled, by being accustomed to honors, and by the license of supreme power.

The same Providence which has willed that the concluding step in the geometrical calculation I have had the honor of describing to your royal highness should be your ascension to the throne, and the destruction of him who is hurtful to you, has also determined that the conquered one shall soon end both his own and your sufferings.
Therefore, his soul and body have been adapted for but a brief agony.
Put into prison as a private individual, left alone with your doubts, deprived of everything, you have exhibited the most sublime, enduring principle of life in withstanding all this.