bad news travels faster than good.
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.