Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
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.'
I praise loudly and I blame softly.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
I cannot live one day without love.