"From that day may be reckoned, the commencement of a counter-revolution and of those intrigues of the Kala Pandes which eventually succeeded so well in overthrowing of their rivals and in repaying the cruelties that they themselves suffered at his (Bhimsen's) hands."

"...a race of men who for the last fifty-five years have dragged the country and its princes at the wheels of military car."

"Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?"

"I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character."

"I see that God died on a gibbet eighteen hundred years ago on behalf of the Bourbon family."