Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.